Interesting timing since it was in 2007 that I sat on the front row watching John Heasman https://www.blackhat.com/presentations/bh-usa-07/Heasman/Presentation/bh-usa-07-heasman.pdf talk about "Hacking the Extensible Firmware Interface." This was my first Blackhat trek a decade ago. I had coffee why John a few weeks afterward in Tacoma and he exhorted me to push the signing of UEFI drivers and applications. He also mentioned the venerable TCG specs on page 37.

Beyond the training material and upcoming conference talks, though, I am especially happy to see the NIST Special Publications (SP) 800-193 on "Platform Firmware Resiliency Guidelines" get posted http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/drafts/800-193/sp800-193-draft.pdf for purposes of public comment review. This work should complements the UEFI standards in provides a robust platform implementation. As always, the people involved in the process are as important as the output of the process itself.

So much for May blogging, and here's looking forward to a WA summer. Speaking of summer, it is interesting that the picture of Stevenson, WA from last week